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J. J. SLEEPER.

EXEBJGISING MACHINE.

No. 404,802. Patented June 4, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

JOSEPH J. SLEEPER, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO ER EST Y.

- LOOMIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

EXERClSlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,802, dated June 4, 1889. Application filed November 20, 1888. Serial No. 291,345. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH J. SLEEPER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Camden, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Exercisi11g-W1achines,which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of an exercising apparatus having means for varying the bight or bend of the rope on the pulleys, so as to increase or decrease the resistance thereof.

It also consists of a novel construction of a cage or receptacle for the weight which is attached to the rope.

It also consists of means for adjusting the tension and position of the guides of said rope.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of an exercising apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a View of a portion of the same, on an enlarged scale, at a right angle to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of the cage and connected parts at a right angle to Fig. 1.

Similar letters and numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a bracket or arm, which is secured to a wall or other suitable place, and from which depends a frame B, on which are mounted the pulleys O, around which is passed the rope or cord D, the lower end whereof has attached to it a cage or receptacle E for a weight. (Shown in dotted lines, Figs. 1 and 3.) On the sides of the cage are eyes 1, through which are passed the vertical cords or wires 2,which are connected, respectively, with the floor 3 and a cross head or bar F, the latter being supported on the bracket A by means of a screw 4, which passes through said bar and has its point fitted freely in a groove 5 on the bracket.

The frame B consists of a top forked piece 6 and bottom piece 7, said piece 6 being provided with an eye 8, whereby it may be hung upon and suspended from the end of the bracket A. The bottom piece 7, consisting of two side bars, one of which is laterally 1nov able, is connected with the top piece 6 by means of a bolt or screw 9, which forms the axis of the upper pulley C and passes through the lower ends of the piece 6 and upper ends of the piece 7. Through the lower ends of the piece 7 passes a screw, rod, or pin 10, which forms the axis of the bottom pulley C. On the lower end of the side of the piece 6 is a toothed boss or ratchet 11, and on the upper end of one of the bars of the pieces 7 is a toothed boss or ratchet 12, the two ratchets meshing and having the screw 9 passed through the same, as will be seen in Fig. 2, whereby the two pieces 6 and 7 may be'firmly connected.

The cage is preferably formed of wire or open work, whereby the interior of the same is readily accessible for the introduction of a weight or weighted material therein and adjusting the degree thereof.

It will be seen that the weight or weighted cage may be raised and lowered after the manner of an exercising apparatus.

Then the screw 9 is properly rotated, one of the side bars of the piece 7 may be moved outwardly, thus disconnecting the ratchet 12 from the ratchet 11. The piece 7 may nowbe turned on the screw, so as to raise or lower the bottom pulley O, whereby the bight or bend of the rope around said pulley may be increased or decreased in relation tothe upper pulley C, so that said rope draws with greater or less resistance, thus varying the exercising effect, after which the bar of the piece 7 is moved inwardly, thus interlocking the teeth of the ratchets in the adjusted angular position of the lower piece, and the screw 9 is properly rotated, whereby the two pieces are tightly clamped together, rendering the parts of the frame rigid as one piece.

Owing to the screw 4, the tension of the guides 2 may be adjusted, and the cross-bar F may be moved nearer to or farther from the end of the bracket A, in order to adjust against the position of said guides for purposes requiring the same, after which said screw is tightened against the bracket, thus 5 firmly holding the cross-bar and guides in adjusted position. v

WVhen desired, a spring may be connected with the lower end of the cord or rope in lieu of the weighted cage.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an exercising-machine, a bracket, a

frame having pulleys thereon and depending from said bracket,acord around said pulleys having a weighted cage on the end thereof, a cross-bar having a screw passing through the same with its point bearing against the top of the bracket, and wires secured to the ends of the cross-bar and serving as guides for said cage, said parts being combined substantially as described.

2. 111 an exercising-machine, a pulley-frame consisting of the two parts (i and 7, the part 6 having aratchet on its side, and the part 7 having a ratchet adapted to form a clutch with the ratchet of part 6, a connecting screwbolt 9, and a pulley j ournaled on said bolt, a pin or shaft uniting the lower extremities of the part 7, and a pulley mounted on said pin or shaft, said parts being combined substantially as described.

In an exereising-machine, a bracket with groove therein, a cross-bar with adj ustingscrews, a two-part adjustable sectional frame depending from said bracket, pulleys mounted in said frame, a cord around said pulleys and carrying at one end a weighted cage, and wires secured to the ends of said cross-bars forming guides for said cage, said parts being combined substantially as described.

5 In an exercising-machine, a bracket, in combination with a two-part frame consisting of parts 6 and 7, part 6 having a side ratchet, and part 7 having a side arm with a ratchet adapted to engage with the ratchet of part 6 and form a clutch, a pulley carried by part 7, a cord on said pulley carrying a weighted cage, and guides for said cage, said parts being combined substantially as described.

5. The guides for the Weight, in combination with a bar attached thereto, a bracket supporting said bar, and a screw connecting said bar and bracketpyhereby the guides may be adjusted in tension and position, substantially as described.

J OSEPII J. SLEEPER.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, Rom. B. FLETCHER. 

